Detectors scanning detector

Fluorometry and Phosphorimetry. Modem spectrofluorometers can record both fluorescence and excitation spectra. Excitation is furnished by a broad-band xenon arc lamp foUowed by a grating monochromator. The selected excitation frequency, is focused on the sample the emission is coUected at usuaUy 90° from the probe beam and passed through a second monochromator to a photomultiplier detector. Scan control of both monochromators yields either the fluorescence spectmm, ie, emission intensity as a function of wavelength X for a fixed X, or the excitation spectmm, ie, emission intensity at a fixed X as a function of X. Fluorescence and phosphorescence can be distinguished from the temporal decay of the emission. 

Potential of zero charge, 20, 23, 25, 66 Potential scanning detector, 92 Potential step, 7, 42, 60 Potential window, 107, 108 Potentiometry, 2, 140 Potentiometric stripping analysis, 79 Potentiostat, 104, 105 Preconcentrating surfaces, 121 Preconcentration step, 121 Pretreatment, 110, 116 Pulsed amperometric detection, 92 Pulse voltammetry, 67... 

Quantitative HPLC analysis was carried out on a Spectraphysics 8720 chromatography system, a rapid scan detector by Barspec on a Zorbax ODS column with acetonitrile water 75/25 as the eluent. 

For fluorescent detection in multiple channels on microchips, scanning detectors and CCD cameras have been used. For instance, scanning LIF detection was first performed using a galvanoscanner which sequentially probed 16 channels [265] and 48 channels [557],... 

A more popular approach for detemining peak purity has been the use of diode-array detectors which were first introduced in 1982 [50]. Peak homogeneity of similiar benzodiazepines [51] and theophylline have been determined by this technique [52]. Rapid-scan detectors are also useful in confirming the presence of known components such as colorants, which are commonly used in drug products [53,54] and identification of related substances [55,56]. 

Block the laser beam or spectrometer entrance slit and adjust the spectrometer to an anti-Stokes shift of 1000 cm Caution Exposure of the sensitive phototube to the intense Rayleigh scattering line can seriously damage the detector. Scan the anti-Stokes spectrum from 1000 to 150 cm in the parallel polarization configuration and, using appropriate sensitivity expansion, j measure the ratio of anti-Stokes to Stokes peak heights for each band. 

Analogously to HPLC, photodiode array or multiwavelength fast scanning detectors can be used to increase the quantity and quality of information. These detectors allow the analyst to evaluate the on-line UV(-visible) spectra of the separated zones, and, by comparison with recorded reference spectra, to investigate peak purity and peak indentity. 

The scope of ultraviolet and visible spectrophotometry can be further extended when combined with a chromatographic separation step such as HPLC. The development of rapid-scanning detectors based on the linear photodiode array permits spectra to be acquired during the elution of peaks. Computer-aided manipulation of these spectra has led to new strategies for the examination of chromatographic peak homogeneity, based on classical techniques in spectroscopy. The use of microcomputers enables the development of archive retrieval methods for spectral characterisation (A. F. Fell etal, J. Chromat., 1984, 316, 423-440). 

A spectrum in a specified ranalogue signals from eadi photodiode are digitised and transferred to a computer, where they e corrected for dark current response and transformed to absorbance. A number of digital techniques are available to increase sensitivity and to extend the use of rapid-scanning detectors to multicomponent analysis, reaction kinetics, tablet dissolution tests, process control, and detection in HPLC (A. F. Fell et al, Chrom-atographia, 1982, 16, 69-78). 

Quantachrome Microscan reduced the time for an analysis from about 45 to about 25 minutes. In this instrument the source and detector scanned up the sedimentation tank rather than the other way round this was claimed to reduce vibration. 

Malvern Spraytec droplet size analyzer measures size and concentrations in continuous sprays, aerosols and dry powder inhalers. The multi-scattering algorithm allows the unit to measure higher concentrations than with laser diffraction. Sampling is carried out every 0.4 ms. Measurements can consist of a single detector scan or averages of multiple scans,... 

Malvern Compact Goniometer System (CGS-3) is a multi-angle light scattering spectrometer. The detector scans a sample cell from an angle of 12° to 152° with an angular resolution of 0.025°. 

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